It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra

So - what are the most important problems in software engineering? I’d answer “dealing with complexity”. -- Mark Chu-Carroll

Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot. If you compete with slaves you become a slave. -- Paul Graham and Norbert Weiner, respectively

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray